Best Director
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | Rebecca | Nominee | ||
| 1944 | Alfred Hitchcock | Lifeboat | Nominee | ||
| 1945 | David Lean | Brief Encounter | Nominee | ||
| Alfred Hitchcock | Spellbound | Nominee | |||
| 1947 | David Lean | Great Expectations | Nominee | ||
| 1955 | David Lean | Summertime | Nominee | ||
| 1956 | Michael Anderson | Around the World in Eighty Days | Nominee | ||
| 1957 | David Lean | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Winner | ||
| 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | Psycho | Nominee | ||
| 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | The Guns of Navarone | Nominee | ||
| 1962 | David Lean | Lawrence of Arabia | Winner | ||
| 1963 | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones | Winner | ||
| 1964 | Robert Stevenson | Mary Poppins | Nominee | ||
| 1965 | John Schlesinger | Darling | Nominee | ||
| David Lean | Doctor Zhivago | Nominee | |||
| 1967 | Norman Jewison | In the Heat of the Night | Nominee | ||
| 1968 | Carol Reed | Oliver! | Winner | ||
| Anthony Harvey | The Lion in Winter | Nominee | |||
| 1969 | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy | Winner | ||
| 1970 | Ken Russell | Women In Love | Nominee | ||
| 1971 | John Schlesinger | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Nominee | ||
| Norman Jewison | Fiddler on the Roof | Nominee | |||
| 1972 | John Boorman | Deliverance | Nominee | ||
| 1978 | Alan Parker | Midnight Express | Nominee | ||
| 1979 | Peter Yates | Breaking Away | Nominee | ||
| 1981 | Hugh Hudson | Chariots of Fire | Nominee | ||
| 1982 | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi | Winner | ||
| 1983 | Peter Yates | The Dresser | Nominee | ||
| 1984 | David Lean | A Passage to India | Nominee | ||
| Roland Joffé | The Killing Fields | Nominee | |||
| 1986 | Roland Joffé | The Mission | Nominee | ||
| 1987 | John Boorman | Hope and Glory | Nominee | ||
| Norman Jewison | Moonstruck | Nominee | |||
| Adrian Lyne | Fatal Attraction | Nominee | |||
| 1988 | Charles Crichton | A Fish Called Wanda | Nominee | ||
| Alan Parker | Mississippi Burning | Nominee | |||
| 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | N. Ireland | Henry V | Nominee | |
| Peter Weir | Dead Poets Society | Nominee | |||
| 1990 | Stephen Frears | The Grifters | Nominee | ||
| 1991 | Ridley Scott | Thelma & Louise | Nominee | ||
| 1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano | Nominee | Second woman ever to be nominated in this category. | |
| 1995 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart | Winner | Gibson is a US-born Australian director | |
| Mike Figgis | Leaving Las Vegas | Nominee | |||
| Michael Radford | The Postman (original title: Il postino) | Nominee | Radford is an English director born in India | ||
| 1996 | Scott Hicks | Shine | Nominee | ||
| Mike Leigh | Secrets & Lies | Nominee | |||
| Anthony Minghella | The English Patient | Winner | |||
| 1997 | James Cameron | Titanic | Winner | ||
| Peter Cattaneo | The Full Monty | Nominee | |||
| Atom Egoyan | The Sweet Hereafter | Nominee | |||
| 1998 | John Madden | Shakespeare in Love | Nominee | ||
| Peter Weir | The Truman Show | Nominee | |||
| 1999 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty | Winner | ||
| 2000 | Stephen Daldry | Billy Elliot | Nominee | ||
| Ridley Scott | Gladiator | Nominee | |||
| 2001 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominee | ||
| Ridley Scott | Black Hawk Down | Nominee | |||
| 2002 | Stephen Daldry | The Hours | Nominee | ||
| 2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Winner | ||
| Peter Weir | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Nominee | |||
| 2004 | Mike Leigh | Vera Drake | Nominee | ||
| 2005 | Paul Haggis | Crash | Nominee | ||
| 2006 | Stephen Frears | The Queen | Nominee | ||
| Paul Greengrass | United 93 | Nominee | |||
| 2007 | Jason Reitman | Juno | Nominee | ||
| 2008 | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire | Winner | ||
| Stephen Daldry | The Reader | Nominee | |||
| 2009 | James Cameron | Avatar | Nominee | ||
| Jason Reitman | Up in the Air | Nominee | |||
| 2010 | Tom Hooper | The King's Speech | Winner |
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